How can God justly forgive you? The theological answer: it’s not the relative badness of one’s sins that matters, but the worth of the sacrifice given by God, for the forgiveness of sins. Leave in place the badness of what Bundy, Duch and you have done. Do not minimize it for a moment. But Jesus, the perfect Son of God, God in flesh, was an even greater, infinitely more valuable sacrifice, more valuable than even the worth destroyed by all the murders of the whole world.
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There are three common characteristics of Community or Discipleship Groups or friendships that are faithful and useful and healthy over the long-term:
• Deliberately Gospeled
• Attentive Friendship
• Consistently Missional:...

The Rescue Mission is out of winter coats - they gave away their last one this morning. If you’re interested in helping, please take a coat directly to the mission, or drop it by the church office. ...

1 Corinthians 5 is a hard chapter; Paul is abrading the Corinthian church for allowing a man to hang around who took his father's wife. Paul's larger point is clear - don't tolerate what even non-Christians don't tolerate (v. 1). But in verses 6-8 Paul pictures crucial truths for us, for growth, change and sanity:
First, that grave danger underlies all boasting. Ver...

There are twin ditches in preaching: saying everything, and saying not enough. As I reflected on the sermon last week, I think I would have included this, or said it in a following sermon: our sufferings are meant to be shared, that we would endure them in hope.
Gloryifying God in this fallen world, in a life stained everywhere by sin, involves much suffering - Paul...

On behalf of the elders, I would like to invite you to consider volunteering to serve in children’s ministry this fall, particularly for Children’s Church - the time when kids up to third grade step out for separate instruction during the sermon.
“What? And miss the sermon?! I’m not a ‘kid person’. I’ve been there and done t...